Welcome
to the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
is an interdisciplinary research and education initiative at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
that aims to expand public understanding and discussion of important
issues facing working people. In cooperation with the Department
of History, the Center administers an undergraduate minor in
Labor Studies and a graduate- level Colloquium in Work, Labor and
Political Economy. The Center also hosts conferences and workshops
that seek to advance an understanding of issues and ideas that contribute
to an understanding, past and present, of American capitalism and
the working class that sustains it.
Upcoming Events
- October 10, 2008: Bill Fletcher and Fernando
Gapasin, "Solidarity
Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social
Justice," 1 p.m. , HSSB 4041.
Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist,
is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder
of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council
President and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o
Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fletcher is also the
author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation
of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- October 17, 2008: Tobias Higbie (History,
UCLA): "Working-Class Readers, Libraries
and Networks of Self-Education in the Progressive Era," 1
p.m., HSSB 4041. (This talk will not be held in HSSB 4041.)
Higbie is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo
Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
(2003), which won the Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor History.
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November 14,
2008: Gilbert G. Gonzalez (School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine):
"Migration Patterns, Border Capitalism and the Bracero Program,"
1 p.m., HSSB 4020. (This talk will not be held in HSSB 4041.)
Gonzalez is Professor
of Social Sciences and Director of the Labor Studies Program
at UC Irvine. He is the author of Chicano Education in the Era
of Segregation (1990) and Culture of Empire: American Writers,
Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004).
- November 20-22, 2008: "
1968: A Year of Student Driven Change," Department
of Black Studies, UCSB. Marking the 40th anniversary
of the Black Student takeover of a computer building on the campus
of the University of California at Santa Barbara, a conference,
"1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change," will take place
at UCSB from November 20-22, of 2008. The conference will address
pivotal issues related to education and focus on a particular
subject—the place of ’68 for considering students
as political and cultural innovators today.
- January 16-17, 2009: The Right and Labor: Politics,
Ideology and Imagination, HSSB 6020.
This conference expores the hostility of the political right to
American trade unionism, both in terms of management-labor conflict
and in the world of politics, ideas, and cultural imaginings.
Contact the Center for more information.
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